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1) Kiyosu kaigi
Language
日本語
Description
After the forced suicide of Nobunaga Oda's suicide, it is decided to find a successor. The conference, know as Kiyosu Kaigi, would become Japan's first group made political decision...
Language
日本語
Description
One day, a letter comes to an editorial desk of "Mincho 24" magazine. The sender is a death-row inmate, Sudo. In his letter, he states that a man named Kimura, also known as "teacher," committed numerous murders for insurance money. An editor, Fujii starts checking out the story, based on Sudo's tip, and becomes convinced that the letter is correct. However long time has passed from the incidents, and it seems difficult to confirm that Kimura is a...
Series
Criterion collection volume 84
Language
日本語
Description
Satiric comedy in which two young brothers refuse to talk until their parents agree to buy them a television set. Set in a 1950s residential suburb of Tokyo.
6) Minamata
Language
English
Description
Three-time Academy Award® nominee Johnny Depp plays celebrated war photographer W. Eugene Smith in a real life David vs Goliath story, pitting Smith against a powerful corporation responsible for poisoning the people of Minamata, Japan in 1971. With the glory days of World War II far behind him, Smith has become a recluse. Between an impassioned Japanese translator called Aileen (Minami) urging him to go and a much needed commission from "Life" Magazine...
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
When four young orphans—Hikari, Ikuko, Ishi, and Takemura—first meet, their parents’ bodies are being turned into dust, like fine Parmesan atop a plate of spaghetti Bolognese, and yet none of them can shed a tear. They are like zombies; devoid of all emotion. With no family, no future, no dreams, and no way to move forward, the young teens decide that the first level of this new existence involves salvaging a gaming console, an old electric...
Series
Criterion collection volume 38
Language
日本語
Description
The number-three ranked killer in the Tokyo underworld carries out three hits, but bungles a fourth. Then both the women in his life try to kill him. The next thing he knows, he is playing a cat-and-mouse game with the very dangerous No. 1 killer...
10) Dark water
Language
日本語
Description
This film is the Japanese original directed by Hideo Nakata, 'the spiritual godfather of Japanese horror, ' and based on the novel by Koji Suzuki, often described as 'the Stephen King of Japan.'
Series
Criterion collection volume 240
Language
日本語
Description
Shows Noriko, a young woman who refuses to give up her job to get married just because of her age. She wants a man of means who will respect her intelligence.
Language
日本語
Description
From groundbreaking animation outfit STUDIO 4°C, creators of MFKZ and the upcoming Children of the Sea, comes an extraordinary project with a simple vision: to take an all-star team of some of the best animators working in Japanese animation today, and give each free reign to tell a unique short story. The results are GENIUS PARTY and GENIUS PARTY BEYOND, two animated anthology films full of boundless imagination, fantastic worlds, and unique visual...
13) Haunted junction
Language
English
Description
You think your school has problems? Haruto, Kazumi, and Mutsumi are three rather gifted students. They form the Holy Student Council, and their job is to exorcise supernatural forces. Of course, their first job is to gather together all the spirits of their school, Saito High. And that's just the beginning. Contains 12 episodes in one 2-disc set.
16) Ran
Series
Criterion collection volume 316
Language
English
Description
In 16th century Japan, an aging ruler attempts to divide his kingdom among his three sons. They turn against each other and betray their father, triggering events that ultimately shatter the kingdom, destroy the family, and drive their father insane. Based on Shakespeare's King Lear.
17) Obon
Language
日本語
Description
Akiko Takakura is one of the last survivors of the atomic bomb explosion of Hiroshima. During Obon, she receives the spirits of her parents and is haunted by memories. Her father is an authoritarian and traditional man. Akiko's childhood consists of constant rejections and beatings. But the horrors of the atomic bomb and Japan's subsequent capitulation change everything. Finally Akiko experiences fatherly love in the midst of Hiroshima's ruins. Official...
18) A Girl Missing
Language
日本語
Description
Koji Fukada's followup to the critically-acclaimed HARMONIUM (also available from Film Movement), A GIRL MISSING “is a satisfying slow-burn drama expertly told” (Screen Daily). Ichiko is a private home-nurse who has worked for the elder matriarch of the Oishos for years and regards them as her own family. Ichiko's quiet, routine life is shattered when a young member of the Oishos clan is kidnapped. When it is revealed that the kidnapper is none...
19) Complicity
Language
English
Description
Cheng Liang is a young Chinese immigrant living illegally in Japan. Desperate for work, he feigns his identity in order to get a job in a traditional Japanese soba restaurant. He starts his new life living and working with the elderly soba master (Tatsuya Fuji, In The Realm of the Senses), but always fearing to have his real identity disclosed at any moment.
20) Demolition Girl
Language
日本語
Description
High school teen Cocoa (Aya Kitai) supports her gambling addict father and deadbeat brother with a part-time job selling sausages and secret work as a video fetish performer. Initially resigned to her small town life of limited possibilities and economic struggle, when the unexpected prospect of going to a Tokyo university is introduced, Cocoa suddenly sees a way out.
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